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Jul 27, 20233 min read
Shabbat VaEtchanan
Deuteronomy 3:23-6:11 - Law or Lore by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The reading from the Torah this week is remarkable in that it combines the two...
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Jul 20, 20234 min read
Shabbat Devarim
The Books of the Bible by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Why do we call the fifth book of the Torah that we start this week Devarim but non-Jews (and...
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Jul 14, 20235 min read
Jewish Torquemadas
by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Of all the Roman emperors, I would say that Constantine more than any other, was responsible indirectly for the two...
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Jul 7, 20234 min read
Fast of Tammuz
by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen We have just had the Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz. It commemorates the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the moment...
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Jul 6, 20234 min read
Shabbat Pinchas
Numbers 25:10-30:1 - Succession by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Pinchas was the grandson of Aharon, the zealot who took the law into his own hands....
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Jun 29, 20235 min read
Blasphemy and Brian
by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen In 1997 “The Life of Brian”, by Monty Python comedians, was a tremendous hit in Britain, and a scandal. The cast...
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Jun 29, 20233 min read
Shabbat Chukat Balak
Numbers 19-25:9 - Faith or Magic by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen This week we have two very different weekly readings of the Torah combined into...
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Jun 23, 20235 min read
Charter Schools and Isidore of Seville
by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I have always been a fan of Charter Schools (naturally there are poor ones too). And I was always shocked that...
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